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1st to the South Pole

Created by six on Dec 16, 2010

Last updated: 12/17/10 at 11:09 AM

• death
  1928

  Amundsen disappeared in a plane accident between Norway and Svalbard and was never found.

• South Pole
  1911

  Roald Amundsen was the first to get to the South Pole beating Robert Scott.

• Northwest Passage
  1905

  Amundsen completed the crossing of the Northwest Passage that he began in 1903.

• first voyage
  1894

  Amundsen took his first arctic voyage

• born
  1872

  Roald Amundsen was born on July 16, 1872 in Borge, Norway